Invertebrates constitute the majority of animal species and are critical for ecosystem
functioning and services. Nonetheless, global invertebrate biodiversity patterns and their …

Aim Marine forests of brown macroalgae create essential habitats for coastal species and
support invaluable ecological services. Here, we provide the first global analysis of species …

Today, warm-water coral reefs are limited to tropical-to-subtropical latitudes. These diverse
ecosystems extended further poleward in the geological past, but the mechanisms driving …

Hotspots of tropical marine biodiversity are areas that harbour disproportionately large
numbers of species compared to surrounding regions. The richness and location of these …

The availability of online biodiversity data has increased in recent decades, aiding our
understanding of diversity patterns and species richness–environment relationships across …

Wave climate is a primary driver of coastal risk, yet how climate change is altering wave
climate is not fully understood. Here we identify transitional wave climate regions, coastlines …

Indonesian coral reefs are under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing,
the use of destructive fishing practices, land-based pollution, coastal development and …

Aim Strong social‐ecological trade‐offs between resource extraction and protection have
created challenges for large, protected area management in natural resource‐dependent …

Direct observations of marine ecosystems are inherently limited in their temporal scope. Yet,
ongoing global anthropogenic change urgently requires improved understanding of long …

Understanding species distribution and the related driving processes is a fundamental issue
in ecology. However, incomplete data on reef-building corals in the ecoregions of the South …